The snow keeps falling and we've had about 40cm in the last 5 days. After arriving late this year it appears to be trying to make up for lost time. I'm getting used to driving on compacted snow and really glad we bought AWD vehicles. The snow ploughs (great huge things) were caught out a little by the volume of snow we had last Thursday night, the result being several stranded people carriers on the school run the next morning. Everyone pitches in here though with a push and a shove to get folk back on the road. Now there are huge 5 ft tall piles of cleared snow at the sides of the road everywhere around town.
We drove to the edge of town at the weekend to choose and cut down our Christmas tree. We parked up, walked through 35cm of virgin snow, found a tree we liked, cleared the snow from around base of the tree and sawed through the trunk before dragging it back to the car and carrying it home. It really looks good decorated in our lounge now, even more so given the effort to obtain it.
We were invited by a friend to the Prince George Festival of Trees two weeks ago. This is a big annual event where local businesses compete against each other by decorating themed Christmas trees, complete with presents, which are displayed to the public who then vote for their favourites. The trees are then auctioned off for charity. The trees are absolutely beautiful and the event raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
